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Featured publications & preprints
– Bodily rhythms as a scaffold for active sensing. PsyArXiv, 2026
Cardiorespiratory cycles create temporal windows that facilitate motor generation or sensory acquisition.
– Interoceptive Rhythms and Perceptual Experience: Mechanisms, Contexts, and Strategies for Real-World Research. NeuroImage, 2026
– Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle. eLife, 2022
– People can identify the likely owner of heartbeats by looking at individuals’ faces. Cortex, 2022
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Full publication list
– Vila, V., Ohl, S., & Galvez-Pol, A. (2026). Cardiorespiratory cycles couple with saccadic eye movements during active visual sampling. Zenodo [preprint]
– McVeigh, K., Marino, L., Cao, I., Galvez-Pol, A., & Quigley, K. (2026). Multi-scale coupling of motor events to the cardio-respiratory cycle. Zenodo [preprint]
– Galvez-Pol, A., Rambaud, V., Christensen F. J., & Kilner, J. (2026). Actors’ Facial Movement Magnitude and Cardiac Dynamics Predict Observers’ Emotion Believability Ratings. BioRXiv [preprint]
– Siquier, A., García Taibo, O., Arenas, D., Cantallops Ramon, J., Galvez-Pol, A., et al. (2026). Effects of acute physical activity on interference control in children with and without ADHD: a crossover ERP study from the Break4Brain project. Journal of Neural Transmission [article]
– Vik, A., Galvez-Pol, A; Park, S; & Tsakiris, M. (2026). Vik, Andrea, et al. “Politics embodied: How politics shapes and is shaped by the bodily experience of emotions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123, 20, e2534895123. [paper]
– The EEGManyPipelines Multilab Consortium. (2026). Many Pipelines, One Dataset: Analytic Flexibility and Its Impact in EEG Research; (Galvez-Pol, A. as contributing analyst; listed in author appendix). MetaArXiv [preprint]
– Lopez-Martin, G., Caparco, A., van Steenoven, C., Leganes-Fonteneau, M., & Galvez-Pol, A. (2026). Interoceptive Rhythms and Perceptual Experience: Mechanisms, Contexts, and Strategies for Real-World Research. NeuroImage, 325, 121650 [paper]
– Galvez-Pol, A., Allen, M., Naranjo, L., & Kilner, J. (2026). Bodily rhythms as a scaffold for active sensing. PsyArXiv [preprint]
– The EEGManyPipelines Multilab Consortium. (2025). The EEGManyPipelines Dataset: Metascientific Data on 168 Independent Analyses of a Single EEG Dataset. (Galvez-Pol, A. as contributing analyst; listed in author appendix). MetaArXiv [preprint]
– Caparco, A., Lopez-Martin, G., & Galvez-Pol, A. (2025). Phase confusion: how inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research. Biological Psychology, 199, 109078 [paper]
– Arenas, D., Bodi-Torralba, M., Oliver, A., & … Muntaner-Mas, A. (2024). Effects of active breaks on educational achievement in children with and without ADHD: study protocol and rationale of the Break4Brain Project. Front. Psychol, 15, 1451731 [paper]
– Galvez-Pol, A., Lopez-Martin, G., & Kilner, J. (2023). Social timing as an active, multisensory, and embodied process. A commentary on “The evolution of social timing” by Verga, Kotz and Ravignani. Physics of Life Reviews, 47, 128-130 [paper]
Galvez-Pol, A., & Garcia, S. (2022-23). Career break: paternity leave.
– Galvez-Pol, A., Pavandeep, V., Villacampa, J., & Kilner, J. (2022). Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle. eLife, 11, e78126 [paper]
– Arslanova, I., Galvez-Pol, A., Kilner, J., Finotti, G., & Tsakiris, M. (2022). Seeing through each other’s hearts: Inferring others’ heart rate as a function of own heart rate perception and perceived social intelligences. Affective Science, 3(4), 862-877 [paper]
– Galvez-Pol, A., Antoine, S., Li, C., & Kilner, J. (2022). People can identify the likely owner of heartbeats by looking at individuals’ faces. Cortex, 51, 176-187 [paper]
– Galvez-Pol, A., Nadal, R., & Kilner, J. (2021). Emotional representations of space vary as function of peoples’ affect and interoceptive sensibility. Scientific Reports, 11, 16150 [paper]
– Palser, E., Galvez-Pol, A., Palmer, C., Ricci, H., Fotopoulou, K., Pellicano, E., & Kilner, J. (2021). Reduced differentiation of emotion-associated bodily sensations in autism. Autism, 25(5), 1321-1334 [paper]
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– Galvez-Pol, A., Forster, B., & Calvo-Merino, B. (2020). Beyond action observation: neurobehavioral mechanisms of memory for visually perceived bodies and actions. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 116, [paper]
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Dissociation of overlapping EEG activity using a combination of visual and somatosensory-evoked potentials
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, A., Calvo-Merino, B., & Forster, B. (2019).
Galvez-Pol, A., Calvo-Merino, B., Capilla, A., & Forster, B. (2018). Persistent recruitment of somatosensory cortex during active maintenance of hand images in working memory. NeuroImage, 174, 153-163 [paper]
Palser, E., Palmer, C., Galvez-Pol, A., Ricci, H., & Kilner, J. (2018). Alexithymia mediates the relationship between interoceptive sensibility and anxiety. Plos one 13(9) e0203212 [paper]
Galvez-Pol, A., Calvo-Merino, B., & Forster, B. (2018). Modulation of motor cortex activity in a visual working memory task of hand images. Neuropsychologia, 117,75-83 [paper]
Galvez-Pol, A. (2017). Revealing mnemonic representations of the body in the brain. Doctoral thesis. City, University of London [PhD thesis]
Nadal, M., Flexas, A., Galvez, A., & Cela-Conde, C. J. (2012). Neuroaesthetics: Themes from the past, current issues, and challenges for the future. Rendiconti Lincei – Scienze Fisiche e Naturali [paper]
Book chapters
– Galvez-Pol, A., Munar, E., & Kilner, J. (2022). The Influence of interoceptive signals on the processing of external sensory stimuli. In Skov & Nadal (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Neuroaesthetics. London: Routledge [chapter]
– Galvez-Pol, A. (2017) De fotones a cognición: percepción, memoria y arte en el cerebro. In Schwartz & Bermúdez (Eds.). Nodos. Pamplona: Next Doors Publishers (English version here).
– Nadal, M., Gomila, A & Galvez-Pol, A (2014). A history for Neuroaesthetics. In J. O. Lauring (Ed.), An Introduction to Neuroaesthetics: The neuroscientific approach to aesthetic experience, artistic creativity, and arts appreciation. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 3-49 [Chapter]